This is what I found today in Tractor Supply store:
Is it contender peach grafted on sour cherry? Or is it two in one tree? (I couldn’t find any marked grafts on it. ) Or North Star is not the sour cherry, but something else?
Is it contender peach grafted on sour cherry? Or is it two in one tree? (I couldn’t find any marked grafts on it. ) Or North Star is not the sour cherry, but something else?
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No it means you have a 50 -50 chance that it COULD be one of those two … then again it might be something completely different!
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I am pretty sure leaves look like peach. So I guess that WAS 50/50 when it was marked 
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I’ve run across reference to a North Star plum in old literature. Don’t think I’ve seen mention of it anywhere in current times. Maybe they’re using an old name for something new? Sue
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It doesn’t mean anything. It is unintelligable. You got what you deserve for looking at a tag at the big box store.
Today my wife dragged me into Target. They had “banana’s” being sold “by the eaches.” Sounds like a ridiculous line from a Dr. Suess title.
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Don’t the good folks at Pirtle Nursery take pride in their work? Wouldn’t an upstanding nursery be a bit skiddish about sending a bunch of mislabeled trees out? So odd to me…
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I actually checked their site - they do not even have contender listed…
While I was being a bit tongue in cheek with my first comment, there is a lot of truth with my comment. For the large wholesale nurseries that sell to places like the big box stores or large national chains their is a lot more unscrupulous practices than there ever should be. In this case they likely knew it was a stone fruit, but which one? Or they only had 987 Contender peaches when TSC ordered a 1,000, but they had 13 of another variety which they knew they were not going to sell out of. Guess what happened to fill the order of a 1,000? Have you ever read a story where these types of large growers were bull dozing and burning large piles of trees that they didnt sell? No and you never will. Unsold trees get sold one way or another. What is the chance that one of these types of nurseries is going to feel any kind of meaningful backlash from you the buyer? Almost zero. I would say the majority of fruit trees bought from these types of stores never live long enough to fruit. While the members of this forum generally have a larger degree of knowledge about growing fruit trees, most fruit trees purchases at these types of stores are spur of the moment decisions buy buyers with a lot less knowledge. Then the tree dies or produces a fruit they didnt remember buying, the owner does one of two things: shrugs their shoulders and says “Oh well.” (Extremely likely) or goes back to TSC and says, “My tree died. or Its producing peaches when I bought a cherry.” TSC may replace depending on their replacement policy. However TSC is not going to call Pirtle Nursery and complain. Not worth the time for them.
I know a large box store right now where you can buy oversized, potted, DEAD fruit trees for $35 to $40. Dead because they were freshly leafed out 2 weeks ago setting outside, since then we have had a couple of rounds of temperatures in the low teens and a blizzard. Think that big box store cares or even has a knowledgeable enough employee that is going to say hey we are selling dead trees. Nope because the buyer is going to have the same attitude I already mentioned.
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I agree with what you saying 100%. But I was surprised with double printed label. I understand mislabeled trees, dead trees, overgrown trees. But I use to trust written word . People can write peach meaning cherry , but nobody accidentally put both cherry and peach in the same label. So I really thought there is something I didn’t know or understand because I am not an expert in fruit trees. I wouldn’t post it here otherwise - no point in it.
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